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Gainesville (Images of America: Florida)
Gainesville - Images of America: Florida
Author: Rob Hicks, Alachua County Genealogical Society (Editor)
Gainesville, Florida, has grown from a small agricultural community in the north-central part of the state to a thriving city. Many people have had a hand in Gainesville's evolution. After befriending the Timucuan Indians, who had originally inhabited the region, the Spanish began recruiting other settlers to move to the area. Despite those ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780738554020
ISBN-10: 0738554022
Publication Date: 7/9/2008
Pages: 128
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Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
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I found this a very interesting book, but then I live in Gainesville, Florida. Many of the photos helped me with my living history at a nearby state park, and I'll be incorporating some of the photo captions into an article I'm writing for the park's volunteer association.

There was a lot of interesting trivia in the book too, which I'll be sharing with friends. Some of it is mind-boggling. For example, a new school was established in Gainesville in 1920. I tried to imagine people driving around town with a bumper sticker on their Model-Ts stating "My Child is an Honor Student at the Florida Farm Colony for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic." This school is now known as the Sunland Training Center


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